It must be awfully difficult being an up and coming band. Sure, making the records and touring must be hard work, but maintaining your online presence is truly daunting.
Since taking an advantage of an offer on the Virgin Radio site for a free track from the band Ghosts, I’ve ended up on their mailing list.
No problem – I did choose to go on it.
But at the end of the email they’ve just sent out plugging the download release of a new set of tracks and remixes, they list their online presences.
There’s the official website: www.ghostsmusic.com
Then there’s the Myspace page: www.myspace.com/ghostsuk
And the Bebo page: http://ghostsuk.bebo.com
And the Youtube page: www.youtube.com/user/ghostsband
And finally the page that says we haven’t left the underground/alternative scene: http://www.ukundercurrent.com/
There’s also the pages where you can collect your tracks paid for by SMS: http://ghosts.tunetribe.com and http://ghosts-sun.tunetribe.com
And I expect there’s an unofficial fansite with forum and a Yahoo/Google mailing list somewhere too.
Phew. Never mind the tour manager, it’s a full-time webmaster that you need these days.